Foxit PhantomPDF fits the diverse use cases that different users require.
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That makes your PDF application find the PDF form from which the form data was exported, load it into the form, and display the form with the loaded data on your screen.
Sending form data to a server and receiving modified form data back from the server typically follows a workflow like this: It can also be used to export form data to stand-alone files that you can store, transmit electronically, and import back into the corresponding PDF interactive form. You use FDF when submitting form data to a server, receiving the response, and incorporating it into the interactive form. FDF files are smaller than PDF files because they only contain the form field data, and not the entire form. In both these cases, that’s exactly what FDF files are for: importing and exporting data in PDFs.įDF, aka, Forms Data Format, is for processing data that’s submitted (via email or the “submit” button) from a form.
Or maybe you need to do the reverse-meaning, populate an interactive form with data from your database. But you’re not going to need to have the entire form submitted back to your organization, only the data that users input. Of course, you’re going to want to gather the information in that form and put it into your database so you can use it. Say you’ve got an interactive form that a lot of people use.